What Is Philosophy for?
Book Details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury
- Published : 2018
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 232
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98371
- ISBN 13 : 9781350051072
- ISBN 10 : 1350051071
Table of Contents
Part I - The Search for Signposts
1. Directions
2. Do Ideas Get Out Of Date?
3. What is Research?
4. Clashes of Method
5. What is Matter?
6. Quantum Queries
7. What is Progress?
8. Perspectives and Paradoxes: Rousseau And His Intellectual Explosives
9. Mill And The Different Kinds Of Freedom
10. Making Sense Of Toleration
Part II - Tempting Visions of Science
11. The Force of World-Pictures
12. The Past Does Not Die
13. Scientism; The New Sedative
Part III - Mindlessness and Machine Worship
14. The Power-Struggle
15. Missing Persons
16. Oracles
Part IV - Singularities and the Cosmos
17. What Kind of Singularity?
18. Can Intelligence be Measured?
19. What is Materialism?
20. The Cult of Impersonality
21. Matter and Reality
22. The Mystique of Scientism
23. The Strange World-Picture
Conclusion: One World but Many Window